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Won't work, they can use eminent domain.
Sounds like Elon.
*I keep the same thing about 1sq ft so here's the reply:
Funny thing is courts see through shenanigans like this and really don't like being yanked around. This would probably hurt them if anything.
*Who split it into 1 sq ft? I highly, highly doubt any land office would accept that. That would be an obviously unusable plot. No road access, no utility access, any of that.
Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I'm not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.
Depending on what land they bought, they can also go around it. The wall's not actually right on the border which curves with the river. It's straight to reduce the length (and cost) and leaves out big pieces of US land.
They bought the land that would be the best possible route for the wall. They also intended to parcel it out in think 1 sqft segments and sell it to people, so eminent domain would have to deal with literally a thousand people possibly filing separate lawsuits.
It was a stunt as I recall, but an imaginative one. They had another that was simply "we dig a hole as long as you donate." All it was was a dude digging a hole out in the boonies in a field with a digger. As long as they had money to pay him, they kept paying him. It had no point at all. They had a FAQ with a question like "why are you doing this? Why not stop and donate the money to a good cause?" And their reply was "why the fuck are you giving us money to do this? You should stop and donate the money to a good cause."
I already answered this to someone else https://lemmy.world/comment/12476765
Sure. I don't think they went through with it, probably for exactly those reasons. It was a novel prank though.
As someone else said, eminent domain is a legal process, and thus time consuming. If I remember correctly, CAHs plan or gimmick was they were going to divide up the land into very small pieces, like 1ft sq, and give it to customers. I think it might have been a black Friday sale gimmick. The idea being there would be hundreds of thousands of people with ownership of border wall land, requiring hundreds or thousands of eminent domain lawsuits to be filed. Not a ironclad solution but, in theory, an impressive way to jam up the wall project. I assume the land in question is part of this gimmick.
Funny thing is courts see through shenanigans like this and really don't like being yanked around. This would probably hurt them if anything.
*Who split it into 1 sq ft? I highly, highly doubt any land office would accept that. That would be an obviously unusable plot. No road access, no utility access, any of that.
Ok, that's gooood. 2 thumbs for inventiveness and dumbfuckery extraordinaire.
They bought it, split it up, and gave a piece to everyone that donated/funded. So like 10,000 individuals. The government can always take it, but it wasn't intended to prevent that entirely. The intention was to make it time consuming and difficult to build the wall there, which in turn would likely prevent building starting in the first place.
https://lemmy.world/comment/12476765